| Letter | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| R | Warrior King of England, known in his native French tongue as “Couer de Lion” and one of the leaders of the Third Crusade | Richard the Lionheart | 86%
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| J | Levantine city, lying between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, which was the target of the Third Crusade | Jerusalem | 84%
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| U | The first of these institutions of higher education was founded in the Italian city of Bologna, followed shortly by the English city of Oxford | University | 82%
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| V | This Italian city hosted negotiations for a peace treaty between the Papacy, Emperor Barbarossa and the Norman Kings of Sicily | Venice | 82%
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| N | This country’s leader, Sigurd I, becomes the first European king to visit the holy land, either as a pilgrim or on crusade | Norway | 78%
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| K | South-East Asian empire, which built the temple complex of Angkor Wat at their capital | Khmer | 73%
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| O | Nephew of Kings Richard and John of England, elected King of Germany before later being crowned Holy Roman Emperor | Otto IV | 71%
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| C | Spanish city on the banks of the river Guadalquivir, which served as the capital of the conquering Almoravid and Almohad moorish dynasties | Cordoba | 67%
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| Y | River which was the site of several battles in the wars between the Jurchen-Jin and Song dynasties in China | Yangtze | 67%
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| S | This warlord, founder of the Ayyubid Dynasty, spearheaded the Muslim military resistance to the Third Crusade | Saladin | 63%
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| E | This powerful woman, Duchess of Aquitaine and Queen of France, became Queen of England following her marriage to Henry Duke of Normandy (who later became King Henry II) | Eleanor of Aquitaine | 59%
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| T | This Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered, probably on the orders of King Henry II | Thomas Becket | 53%
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| D | Prince of the Cumbrians, crowned King of Alba (Scotland) and later made a Saint | David I | 49%
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| A | Empire founded by King Henry II, consisting of lands in England, Wales, Ireland and France | Angevin | 39%
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| L | The Kings of this medieval north Iberian state, heavily involved in the Reconquista, gave their name to a modern American rock band | Leon | 39%
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| F | Muslim Caliphate, based in Cairo and tracing its lineage to the daughter of the Prophet Mohammed, came to an end after invasion by the Seljuk Turks | Fatimid | 37%
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| M | Empress who fought a civil war against King Stephen for the throne of England, also known as The Anarchy | Matilda | 35%
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| H | German nun, polymath and mystic, writer, composer, philosopher and early practitioner of natural history | Hildegard of Bingen | 33%
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| G | Political factions, divided by their support for the Holy Roman Emperor or the Pope, dominated Italian politics throughout the century | Guelphs / Ghibbelines | 22%
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| I | Controversy, which was really a power battle between secular Kings and the Papacy, over the right to appoint Bishops and Abbots | Investiture | 22%
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| B | Benedictine monk, founder of Clairvaux Abbey and the Knights Templar | Bernard of Clairvaux | 16%
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| P | Mythical Christian King, said to have ruled a great empire in India or Central Asia | Prester John | 14%
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| W | This ship sank soon after leaving Barfleur in Normandy, killing the heir to the English throne and his entire party, leading to a succession crisis | White Ship | 12%
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| Z | Middle Eastern dynasty, based in Mosul and Damascus and named for its founder, a Seljuk Turkic general, controlled most of the Levant and Egypt throughout the century | Zengid | 6%
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